2024-01-10 13:55:28
Marc Overmars, former footballer, current Dutch coach and teammate of Lionel Messi in Barcelona, was suspended for two years worldwide from carrying out any activity linked to football for having sent photos and videos of a sexual nature. to employees when he was sports director of Ajax in the Netherlands.
Last November, Overmars was sanctioned by the Dutch Federation (KNVB) but the punishment was restricted to the territory of the Netherlands and today it was added worldwide, indicated the AFP news agency.
“Inappropriate messages” and “embarrassment”
Overmars, who He played for the Netherlands in the 1994 United States and France 1998 World Cups, resigned from his job at Ajax in February 2022, following having admitted sending a “series of inappropriate messages” to some teammates and declared that he was “ashamed.” of his behavior.
The Dutch Sports Court (ISR) decided to ban the former footballer from “exercising any function” in any organization affiliated with the Dutch Football Federation for two years, one of them suspended.
“The KNVB has the obligation to inform the FIFA Disciplinary Committee of this sanction, which must decide whether to transfer the sanction to the international level, which it has done,” the Dutch federation explained today.
Ajax sports director for 10 years
Overmars had held the position of Ajax sporting director since 2012 and played an important role in the Amsterdam club’s recent successes.especially in the 2019 Champions League, when it reached the semifinal, and in the Europa League in 2017, when it was a finalist.
During his years as a footballer in the 1990s, Overmars won the Champions League with Ajax in 1995, as well as three Dutch championship titles. In England he won the Premier League in 1998 with Arsenal, before arriving on loan to Barcelona in 2000, where he managed to share a squad with world champion Lionel Messi in 2003.
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